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I also happen to be doing some buffing. After 25+ years of sitting in a barn and outside under a plastic tarp this is what the aluminum looked like. Too bad I sanded the timing cover before photographing the decay.
This is the rocker cover with one side wire brushed. You can see how deep the decay went.
After wire brushing I hit it with a file.
After rounding it with the file came 40 to 400 grit emery cloth.
This is where I'm at now after 1st buff with a coarse sisal 8" wheel and black compound.
Norton's aluminum castings may not be 100% free of minute defects but I'm sure glad it wasn't a suzuki I'd bought back in 72 and had stashed in the elements all these years, there would have been nothing left to file and buff!
This is the rocker cover with one side wire brushed. You can see how deep the decay went.
After wire brushing I hit it with a file.
After rounding it with the file came 40 to 400 grit emery cloth.
This is where I'm at now after 1st buff with a coarse sisal 8" wheel and black compound.
Norton's aluminum castings may not be 100% free of minute defects but I'm sure glad it wasn't a suzuki I'd bought back in 72 and had stashed in the elements all these years, there would have been nothing left to file and buff!